Re: [CBQ] Engine 2914

["Jpslhedgpeth@aol.com [CBQ]" <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>]

thanks Hol..The 1914 assignment sheet should verify what I'm thinking re Alliance.  As I said..My dad had noted on the back  "J Hedgpeth  age 9"  My dad was born Jan 25, 1906 this would make the date of ;his work  1915.  Since 2914 was at Alliance in 14 and again in 18 so that's what I'll use for a caption.  Louis Z is helping me get a suitable photo to place alongside my dad's sketch work.

Thanks much for your help.

Pee=te

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From: Hol Wagner holpennywagner@msn.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
To: CBQ <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thu, May 25, 2017 9:33 am
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Engine 2914

 

Pete:

Sorry to be so slow in answering your query.  The earliest Lines West assignment sheet I have is for Sept. 1, 1914, and it shows 2914 assigned to the Alliance Division.  The next Lines West sheet I have is for 1918, and 2914 is still at Alliance.

I don't have any early views of the engine, and the only view I know of before it was rebuilt is an Otto Perry photo in Denver in 1928:

http://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/fullbrowser/collection/p15330coll22/id/42886/rv/singleitem/rec/1

I also have this view at Red Oak in April 1938, but not taken by Corbin:

Otto Perry also shot 2914 on a passenger train at St. Louis in the early 1930s.  She did indeed get around.

Hol

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From: CBQ@yahoogroups.com <CBQ@yahoogroups.com> on behalf of LZadnichek@aol.com [CBQ] <CBQ@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2017 1:19 PM
To: CBQ@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [CBQ] Engine 2914 [2 Attachments]

 

 

[Attachment(s) from LZadnichek@aol.com included below]

May 24, 2017

 

Pete - Your dad and Class S-2-A No. 2914 shared at least one thing in common, both were well traveled..... From the plains of Wyoming and Nebraska, sometime in its life 2914 migrated to Lines East and ended-up finishing its career in suburban service between Chicago Union Station and Aurora, IL. I'm inserting/attaching two images, one of the engineer's side and one of the fireman's side.

 

CB&Q 2914  No Other Information  -  My educated guess is the deadline at the Clyde roundhouse in Cicero,IL, near the time it was sold for scrap in April 1954.

 

CB&Q 2914  Downers Grove, IL  Suburban Yard  February 4, 1951

 

Unfortunately, I do not have an image of 2914 as built by the Baldwin Locomotive Company as a Class S-2 in 1910. And, I do not have any images of 2914 on Lines West. Perhaps, another Group member does.  Sometime during its long career, 2914 was equipped with an Elesco feed water heater. I would think your dad's 1915 sketch would show 2914 without a feed water heater. Now you know what 2914 actually looked like nearing its retirement on Lines East. Best Regards - Louis

 

Louis Zadnichek II

Fairhope, AL 

 

 

In a message dated 5/23/2017 8:52:36 P.M. Central Daylight Time, CBQ@yahoogroups.com writes:

I have a sketch photo my dad made of engine 2914....He notes on the back  J. Hedgpeth age 9..That would make the date of the sketch 1915.

I wonder if any of you guys who have the old assignment sheets can tell me where this engine was summer 1915.

I'm thinking it somewhere on the Alliance or Casper Divisions at that time

My grandfather "traveled" for the Lincoln Drug company in the western Nebraska,  SW South Dakota and eastern Wyoming during the years 1908-1917.

During summers of those years my dad and my grandmother would go out to his territory with him.  His headquarters was Alliance NE and he owned a drug store at Scottsbluff at that time.  Hence I'm thinking that my dad may have seen that engine somewhere around Alliance, Scottsbluff, Casper etc.

I have that sketch framed and hanging on my wall and it would be a really good thing if I could caption the photo with the possible location of the engine during the summer months 1915.

Thanks for any help you can give me.

Pete

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